@r2but1rcw 1/ As Jeff Goodell [@jeffgoodell] points out in “The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World,” [Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
2/ “The water will continue to rise. “It will have a metallic sheen and will smell bad,” Goodell [@jeffgoodell] writes. “Kids will get strange rashes and fevers. [Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
3/ More people will leave [low areas].[Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
4/ Seawalls will crumble. In a few decades, low-lying neighborhoods will be knee-deep. [Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
5/ Wooden houses will collapse into a sea of soda bottles, laundry detergent jugs, and plastic toothbrushes. Human bones, floated out of caskets, will be a common sight.[Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
6/ Treasure hunters will kayak in, using small robotic submersibles to search for coins and jewelry. [Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
7/ Modern office buildings and condo towers will lean as salt water corrodes the concrete foundations and eats away at the structural beams.[Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
8/ Fish will school in the classrooms. Oysters will grow on submerged light poles. Religious leaders will blame sinners for the drowning of the city.”[Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
9/ The damage suffered by Houston, Tampa and Miami is not an anomaly. It is the beginning of the end. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.[Read more at bit.ly/3lXlCgk by Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges via @Truthdig]
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